Congratulations to Joe Conlon, whose gorgeous 1953 Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupe captured Best in Show at the sixth annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show this past weekend at the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. Joe’s coupe also captured first place in its class, the cars of Donald Healey, one of this year’s four special classes. Joe has owned the car for 30 years; three years ago, he began a home restoration of the car. He and his sons, Joe Jr. and Bret, did most of the work, with the bodywork and painting done in Joe’s barn by Fred Ferrera. The restoration was completed the night before the August 6 show.

In a field of wonderful cars, the Nash-Healey was the unanimous choice of the Hemmings editors. A full report on the show, with photos of the first- and second-place winners in every class, will appear in an upcoming issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car. Until then, check out our gallery of photos from the event on our Facebook page.

It is nice to see a car painted in the correct colour for its era, but you have to agree that the frontal design is not the most beautiful. Something is wrong with the placement of the headlamps inside the grille opening.